MORE than 50 people who held a protest outside the County Hall yesterday heard that Cork County Council is to take a mobile phone company to court to force it to remove a controversial mast.

“Unfounded” appeals caused delays to the Apple data centre in Athenry, Co Galway, which has thrown the €850m venture into jeopardy, according to Independent Alliance whip Seán Canney.

A consortium has been appointed to transform the former Haulbowline steelworks dump into a multimillion-euro park and tourist attraction.

Dublin City Council has given the go-ahead for a €40m plan to convert Loreto Hall, a former women’s hostel on St Stephen’s Green, into a luxury hotel.

Retail giant Lidl wants to build apartments as part of a new scheme on a site in a Cork suburb where its previous shop-only plan was shot down.

CLAIMS have been made that drivers will not use a proposed new motorway service station because it was too close to Cork city.

CORK County Council has granted permission for a 96-berth marina in Kinsale and a controversial quarry in Carrigtwohill. However, objections have been made to An Board Pleanála about hundreds of houses earmarked for Bandon.

THERE is something fundamentally wrong that the communities in Ringaskiddy and those in the surrounding Cork harbour area should be subjected to a Bord Pleanála oral hearing in relation to the proposed Indaver Ireland hazardous waste incinerator.

A MOTHER-OF-TWO with a debilitating illness moved out of a Limerick suburb to the countryside because the air quality would be better for her health.

Defensive walls, river channel widening and deepening, new bridges and culverts will form part of a €12m project planned for flood defences in two Cork suburbs.

Cork County Council officials have disclosed they are still intent on developing a 5,000-house town at Monard near Blarney.

WEST Clare got a major jobs boost yesterday after the green light was given for a €5 million mixed-use development which will provide 120 jobs.

BORD Gáis unveiled three possible routes last night for a proposed €60 million pipeline to increase gas supply to the south.

An Bord Pleanála’s decision to turn down a memorial to victims of institutional abuse, planned for the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square in Dublin, represents a slap in the face for those who were treated outrageously by nuns and brothers of religious orders under the unseeing eyes of state agencies.